Zmyrna

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discussed in biography

Roman poet who wrote the mythological epic poem
Zmyrna, about the incestuous love of
Zmyrna for her father. He was a friend of the poet Catullus. The early Christian-era historians Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, Appian, and Dio Cassius all state that at Caesar’s funeral (44
bc) a certain Helvius Cinna was killed by mistake in place of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, the conspirator. The last...

neōteroi

...during the Ciceronian period (70 to 43
bc) of the Golden Age, wrote finely wrought love lyrics and epyllia in Latin and Greek. Catullus’s 95th poem hails the obscure epyllion
Zmyrna by Gaius Helvius Cinna as a model text of the new movement. The movement’s supporters attracted the hostile attention of the famous orator and minor poet Marcus Tullius Cicero, who...